SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics) - DARPA-funded program, USA. The stated purpose is to "investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in neuromorphic electronic devices that are scalable to biological levels.Laboratories/Organizations: The project is primarily contracted to IBM and HRL who in turn subcontract parts of the research to various US universities (All participants). Teams: Dharmendra Modha, manager of IBM's cognitive computing initiative | Narayan Srinivasa, manager of HRL's Center for Neural and Emergent Systems

China-Brain Project is an attempt to build China’s first artificial brain by evolving tens of thousands of neural net modules quickly using Celoxica accelerator boards, downloading the results into the memory of a PC, connecting them to make an artificial brain, and having the PC perform the neural signaling of the whole brain in real time to control the hundreds of behaviors of robots.

Neurona@Home is a BOINC-based project with the main aim of simulating the behavior of a large assembly of cellular automata neurons connected in a complex network. The project takes hundreds of internet-connected computers from all over the world and uses them to simulate a 1,000,000 neuron bee brain. Two types of neurons: inhibitory and exitatory, each neuron can be one of three states: resting, activated, refactory. Model assigns each neuron a state and chooses interconnection values.Uses the BOINC distributed computing platform. The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open source middleware system for volunteer and grid computing.Lead researcher is Dr. Javier Villanueva at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Ambitious "big brain" idea of the Obama administration:President Obama announced plans for a long-term project to map the human brain at all levels, from individual neurons to complex neural circuits, called the BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies).

OpenCog doesn't emulate the human brain in any detail. Instead it uses currently available computer hardware to run software that draws inspiration from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and computer science. The assumption is that the human brain is only one particular way of achieving general intelligence and that other methods are just as viable.